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Written by John Mellencamp |
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Go on and admit it |
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You can't take it anymore |
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So why don't you quit it |
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Your scratching off again |
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Can't you see it |
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Well the whole thing was such a surprise |
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I know you and your hear crazy notions |
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Your pretty girls and no devotions |
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Down by the ocean middle class |
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Down by the gulf side, you let it all slide |
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But now your saying that you don't |
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wanna be a sixteen year old girl, aah |
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But you don't want to turn twenty-five |
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You never ever, you never ever lied, |
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where you been, aahh |
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You got to survive to keep yourself alive, |
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yeah-ah, yeah |
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It ain't no big deal if your attitude is wrong |
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and you don't know how you feel |
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You just cop someone else's ideas |
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and masturbate yourself, make them your own |
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Well I, I don't mean to tell you what to do |
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cause I've scratched off myself a time or two |
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Well it just leaves you blue, with nothing to do |
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And they think I'm crazy when I stay up all weekend |
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But now your saying that you don't |
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wanna be a sixteen year old girl, oh yeah, aah |
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But you don't want to turn twenty-five |
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You never ever, you never ever lied |
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where you been, aahh |
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You got to survive to keep yourself alive |
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yeah-ah, my na na no, yeah |
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So if I'm walking down the street and you see me |
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Don't walk on by, say hey man |
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you know your looking, your looking so fine |
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You don't have to mean it, no no |
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Its just one of the regular lies that we've lived with |
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And this is a love song and |
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I'm writing it just to survive |
